History VideoGame / SuperMarioBrosTheLostLevels

''The Lost Levels'' could be considered a very early example of DownloadableContent; in addition to being sold on its own, it could be written to the blank side of the Disk System version of its predecessor, or any other Disk System release with a blank side, for the low price of 500 yen using Nintendo's Disk Writer kiosk (itself an early example of DigitalDistribution). It is far from uncommon to find secondhand copies of the Disk System version of ''Super Mario Bros.'' and ''The Lost Levels'' on the same disk.

!!!'''[[SimilarlyNamedWorks You may be looking]] for ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'', the Western sequel to ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1'' which is known as ''Super Mario USA'' in Japanese.'''

!!!'''[[SimilarlyNamedWorks You may be looking]] for ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'', the Western sequel to ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1'''''

* AquaticMook: The Blooper and Cheep Cheep inhabit underwater levels, like in the first game. However, in this game, Bloopers can also be found hovering airborne in ground levels; as a result, you can now GoombaStomp them,
* ArtEvolution

The original version of ''The Lost Levels'' has since been released in future platforms, including a port for the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance in 2004 which once again remained exclusive to Japan. In fact, it wasn't until 2007, twenty-one years after the game was released, that the original version was made available to Western gamers via the UsefulNotes/{{Wii}}'s UsefulNotes/VirtualConsole; and from that point the game hasn't missed the international market ever again, being available there on the Virtual Consoles of the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS and UsefulNotes/WiiU, the NES catalogue of the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, and as part of the rerelease of the first ''Super Mario Bros.'' for the Game & Watch for the franchise's 35th anniversary in 2020. For all of these re-releases, the game adopted the name of the ''All-Stars'' version in the West, to distinguish it from the international ''Super Mario Bros. 2'' (though the game's title screen still shows the Japanese name).

-> ''It's like'' [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1 Super Mario Bros. 1]]'', except you'' '''''die'''''.
-->-- [[https://www.youtube.com/c/LewisMedeirosANobodyPlaysGames Lewis]] of '''WebVideo/BrainScratchCommentaries'''

-->'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WojvlJ_xibE&index=4&list=PLMBTl5yXyrGQ68Ny1mXCAaSwbjpcVwm49 Dunkey]]''': This is the world's first [[TrollFic troll game]].

Released [[NoExportForYou exclusively in Japan]] on June 3, 1986 for the [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem Family Computer Disk System]], ''Super Mario Bros. 2'', also known worldwide as ''Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels'', is the second game in the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' series. Following the success of ''[[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1 Super Mario Bros.]]'', Creator/{{Nintendo}} decided to follow it up with a MissionPackSequel. There were four main differences between the original and the sequel: the two-player mode was replaced by the option to play the game as either Mario or Luigi, Luigi was given higher jumps but inferior traction, some of the graphics were updated, and the game was about as close to PlatformHell as one gets short of a [[GameMod ROM hack]] or the most hardcore ''VideoGame/SuperMarioMaker'' levels.

Released exclusively in Japan on June 3, 1986 for the Family Computer Disk System, ''Super Mario Bros. 2'', also known worldwide as ''Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels'', is the second game in the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' series. Following the success of ''[[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1 Super Mario Bros.]]'', Creator/{{Nintendo}} decided to follow it up with a MissionPackSequel. There were four main differences between the original and the sequel: the two-player mode was replaced by the option to play the game as either Mario or Luigi, Luigi was given higher jumps but inferior traction, some of the graphics were updated, and the game was about as close to PlatformHell as one gets short of a [[GameMod ROM hack]] or the most hardcore ''VideoGame/SuperMarioMaker'' levels.

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[[caption-width-right:256:[[{{Tagline}} For Super Players]][[note]][[NintendoHard and we]] ''[[NintendoHard really]]'' [[NintendoHard mean it.]][[/note]]]]

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* AWinnerIsYou: Reach World 9-4 and you get a message made of blocks that reads "アリガトウ!" (''Arigatou!'', or "Thank you!")

Even though this was back when many games - including the first installment - were NintendoHard, the difficulty spike between this game and its predecessor was insane. In Japan, this had the effect of giving jaded Mario fans a new challenge to overcome (in fact, the game sold well in Japan, it sold 2.5 million units, and was the all-time best-selling on the Family Computer Disk System). However, when Howard Phillips, Nintendo of America's chief play-tester, and favorite of [=NoA=] president Minoru Arakawa, got his hands on the game, he found the experience of playing it to be absolutely punishing, and not at all fun. Based on Phillips' input, Arakawa made the decision [[NoExportForYou not to release it in the United States and Europe]]. However, Nintendo of America absolutely needed a western ''Mario'' sequel in record time, so Nintendo [[DolledUpInstallment Dolled-Up]] another Nintendo game, ''[[VideoGame/DokiDokiPanic Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic]]'', and called it ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'' (eventually, in Japan the re-dressed game would get released under the title ''Super Mario USA'').

[[caption-width-right:256:[[{{Tagline}} For Super Players]]]]

* BattleThemeMusic: As in the previous game, no boss music plays when you meet Bowser in any of the castle levels. This is rectified in the ''All-Stars'' remake, which gives him a dedicated boss track in the first seven standard worlds, as well as the first three special worlds, and another for the eighth and twelfth (fourth special) worlds. Interestingly, the FinalBoss music starts playing from the moment you meet his brother.

[[caption-width-right:256:''[-[[Manga/{{Bleach}} People have hope because they don't see Death standing behind them.]]-]'']]

[[caption-width-right:256:''[-[[WelcomeToHell People have hope because they don't see Death standing behind them.]]-]'']]

* PlantMooks: The Piranha Plants, which this time bring a red variant that will come out of the red pipes even if you're standing onto them.

* PlatformHell: One of the few commercial releases.

* SecretLevel: Worlds 9, A, B, C, and D. Many of them qualify as BrutalBonusLevel, even in relation to the rest of the game.

* AscendedGlitch: World 9 was inspired by a glitch in the Disk System version of the first game. The glitch involved removing the cartridge during the middle of gameplay, replacing it with a copy of ''Tennis'' and then resetting the console. After playing a few rounds of ''Tennis'', the player must switch cartridges once again during gameplay, switching back to ''Super Mario Bros.'', and then reset the game once again. After doing all of this without turning off the console, the player must start the game by pressing A+Start (the continue code) in order to start in World 9, which is an underwater version of World 6-2 and World 1-4 with random enemies and crashes. This glitch is impossible to reproduce on the NES, since the console automatically resets when a cartridge is forcefully removed. [[note]] Unless, of course, you're playing on a 1993 "toploader" NES, which lacks the infamous CIC lockout chip programmed to reset the console ''every second'' if a licensed cartridge isn't inserted. Or if you're playing on a modified frontloading NES with its lockout chip disabled.[[/note]]

[[caption-width-right:256:''[-[[WelcomeToHell People have hope because they don't see Death standing behind them]]-]''.]]

-> ''It's like'' [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1 Super Mario Bros. 1]]'', except you'' '''''die.'''''

Released exclusively in Japan on June 3, 1986 for the Family Computer Disk System, ''Super Mario Bros. 2'', also known worldwide as ''Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels'', is the second game in the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' series. Following the success of ''[[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1 Super Mario Bros.]]'', Creator/{{Nintendo}} decided to follow it up with a MissionPackSequel. There were four main differences between the original and the sequel: the two-player mode was replaced by the option to play the game as either Mario or Luigi, Luigi was given higher jumps but inferior traction, some of the graphics were updated, and the game was about as close to PlatformHell as one gets short of a [[GameMod ROM hack]].